SF bikeshare: Bay Area Bike Share, meanwhile, has just 700 bikes in SF and Silicon Valley (as many as Portland’s increasingly hypothetical system would get) and needs a corporate sponsor to grow, one advocate says.

Lottery prize: What would your town do if it won the lottery? A rich resident willed $150 million to the community foundation in Elkhart, Ind., population 51,000. Guess which vehicle they’re investing in.

“Being bike-friendly is an easy step to more business in Oregon’s booming bicycle tourism economy,” says Laura Crawford in a new Travel Oregon series about the business case for bike-friendliness, your video of the week:

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Bitlock is clever, has functionality that stands to be very appealing to device minded people. Great info on the kickstarter page. One caveat: not a lot about testing of the strength of the lock. The battery and motor inside the lock crossbar requires that it be a hollow tube. The cutaway shows how relatively thin the steel there is.

IN the Rahm/chicago article Rahm claims that MIlwaukee Ave has the highest level of cycle commuter traffic in the country at 4000/day. According to the Hawthorne Bridge’s Wikipedia page, which claims 8000/day and the 2 million recorded trips in a little over a year that the counter logged, I don’t think that is correct.

I’m surprised you put in the “share the road” article with all of the us vs. them rants and suggested violence (a homicide warning sign?). I guess all that talk about bike safety, nonviolence, and inclusive/user neutral language was just you blowing smoke.

We share a lot of articles here… But that doesn’t mean we fully agree or endorse every single one of them. The article you mention above is simply something that I felt deserved wider attention. That’s all. Thanks.

He also posted a video of Chicago’s mayor riding a bike share bike without a helmet even though he almost exclusively strategically posts photos of people wearing helmets on the site. It sounds like you’re targeting something that you’re personally bristled by. And by pointing out the article, something that might have gone unnoticed now got three comments regarding it so people reading the comments are going to look up to see what you’re talking about. That’s how people seek it out because they what to know what the hubbub is about.